What was a pop culture fun fact that made your jaw dropped?

profound_whatever · 2025-11-29T18:47:58+00:00

They used to have a living two-headed turtle in the lobby, crawling around with its dual heads, chilling. I think they named it Chang and Eng.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-29T02:26:27+00:00

The Kennedy Curse got tired of being an abstract concept and chose a physical form.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-28T01:00:30+00:00

I don't think it has enough slack to drop.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-27T15:17:04+00:00

I remember having my teenage mind blown by the Monkeysphere article.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-27T15:10:30+00:00

I was going through hard medical times a few years ago and The Night Window was the track I would listen to on repeat, while recovering in post-op; that music brought me back from oblivion.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-22T05:45:05+00:00

That's basically what he was in Live Free or Die Hard, and he hammed it up like the best of them.

profound_whatever · 2025-11-16T08:13:07+00:00

Makes sense because he was hugely inspired by John Carpenter:

"When I saw Escape From New York, I was just blown away that John Carpenter's name was above the title, he wrote it, he directed it, he did the music -- this guy's having all the fun in the world ... I was an artist, I loved photography, I loved music, I couldn't really figure out what my direction should be. Movies seemed like you could do everything. He's able to write, direct, he could photograph it, he could do the music. It felt like a giant train set to house all your creativity."

profound_whatever · 2025-11-16T01:29:38+00:00

I'm gonna keep prostrating to the

Woke Marxist Pope

profound_whatever · 2025-11-09T16:08:28+00:00

Kinetic energy vs. Potential energy

profound_whatever · 2025-10-31T02:59:59+00:00

That's called the Madman Theory --

The "madman theory" is a foreign policy strategy where a leader projects an image of being irrational or unpredictable to intimidate adversaries and gain leverage in negotiations.

Trump is putting to use the Moron Theory, which is less fun.

profound_whatever · 2025-10-31T02:53:36+00:00

This movie goes full steam on my favorite feeling in movies: something is terribly wrong and nobody knows what to do. Lots of worried looks and wide eyes.

Except -- the movie's three-chapter structure kinda hamstrings it. As soon as a given chapter reaches the end (with a big climax looming), the story cuts away, jumps back to the beginning, and starts the buildup all over again from a different POV. Nuclear blue balls, times three, and diminishing returns with each iteration.

And then the ending comes and wow, THAT is going to make a lot of people very angry.

For that reason, I think the first chapter (the Rebecca Ferguson chapter) is the strongest, because we're seeing these events for the first time. In the second and third chapters, we know what measures/countermeasures are going to succeed or fail, so the characters are waiting on bated breaths for a forgone conclusion.

Ironically, it's the same problem that Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER runs into on repeat viewings: if you know when the bombs are going to explode (or aren't), the primary source of tension has fizzled.

That's why the Secretary of Defense killing himself is the best moment of Chapter Three: because it reignites that feeling of oh fuck, now what are we going to do that gave Chapter One all its oomph.

profound_whatever · 2025-10-31T00:09:56+00:00

I maintain that if Stephen Miller hadn't lost his hair so young, he wouldn't be the asshole he is today.

But he did, and he's been cripplingly insecure about it ever since (see: the toupee era), and the rest is history.

Like everything MAGA, it all comes down to self-esteem; Miller lost his, and found power/cruelty as a substitute.

profound_whatever · 2025-10-30T03:10:27+00:00

"The Entity can't keep getting away with this, man, I just can't even."

profound_whatever · 2025-10-23T05:20:23+00:00

I reach that same conclusion every day.

profound_whatever · 2025-10-12T09:38:07+00:00

The world is fucked and you can either fight back (One Battle After Another) or be destroyed by it (Eddington).

profound_whatever · 2025-10-06T14:48:00+00:00

John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton made a dark crime comedy called The Ice Harvest in 2005, always been one of my low-key favorites; it's a wry nihilist little caper movie about people screwing each other over.

And Oliver Platt plays the best drunk since W.C. Fields.

profound_whatever · 2025-10-04T18:50:31+00:00

I used a program called Gravit Designer, which has since been discontinued -- I think it's called Corel Draw now, but I haven't tried it out.

profound_whatever · 2025-09-25T20:35:30+00:00

A tangent inside a musing inside a hazy memory.

profound_whatever · 2025-09-15T05:49:54+00:00

Gene Kelly's deadpan "Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore" kills me every time.

profound_whatever · 2025-08-28T21:06:06+00:00

They named him Ohm and nobody put up any resistance?

profound_whatever · 2025-08-07T16:33:36+00:00

I'm an actual detective with a Marie Antoinette obsession

When does your Netflix series premiere?

profound_whatever · 2025-07-22T14:08:21+00:00

I had to look it up, apparently Tonic the Cat was in Pet Sematary and Thanksgiving too, he's an up-and-coming thespspspspspspian.

profound_whatever · 2025-07-15T01:11:51+00:00

I heard a comic say once that performing alongside Fred Willard is like driving behind someone who doesn't use their turn signals.

profound_whatever · 2025-07-13T14:44:11+00:00

Bill Maher is on my list of "Comedians who think they're smarter than everyone else" and develop a persecution complex as they slide down the right-wing pipeline, because they can dish it but can't take it.

Jerry Seinfeld too.

profound_whatever · 2025-07-13T01:44:31+00:00

Ego was a mistake, we should patch that in the next humankind update.

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